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First lines in young adult books

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"How does one describe Artemis Fowl? Various psychiatrists have tried and failed."

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

15

"Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive."

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

15

"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

15

"Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my a

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

15

"There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair."

Divergent by Veronica Roth

15

"I am Mary Iris Malone, and I am not okay."

Mosquitoland by David Arnold

15

"I was seventeen years old when I saw my first dead body."

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

15

"I don't know a lot of things."

The Way I Used to Be

15

"The first time I killed a man it was an accident."

Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace

15

"There were things Dillard Wayne Early Jr. dreaded more than the start of school at Forrestville High."

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

15

"Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache."

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

15

"I have no idea how to write this stupid book."

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

15

Brian Robeson stared out of the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

15

“12th June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”

The Diary of Anne Frank

15

. “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.”

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

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